Change the Media, Change the Future.
The world’s media system; social media – corporate media and state media – has been hijacked by a handful of powerful interests – billionaire-owners, political operators and advertisers.
Abusing this power, they push narrow, toxic agendas at the expense of truth and public interest – eroding democracy and destroying life in their path.
WE WILL NOT STAY SILENT.
WE WILL CALL IT WHAT IT IS.
GENOCIDE, ECOCIDE AND NOW ….MENTICIDE.
LATEST NEWS
- Finding The ‘Sweet Spot’ Between Investigation and Activism
At Media Revolution’s public ‘Disinformation and Democracy’ event at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in London, two legends of investigative journalism shared their insights into the omnicrisis and their views on the way forward. Carole Cadwalladr is best known for… Read more: Finding The ‘Sweet Spot’ Between Investigation and Activism - Is this a tipping point for social media?
Deliberately and knowingly causing harm to children – as a business model. It’s not a good look for the social media giants Meta and Google, who are currently on trial in the US over claims that they intentionally created ‘addiction machines’… Read more: Is this a tipping point for social media? - National Emergency Briefing Puts Media at the Centre of the Climate Crisis and Demands a National Emergency Broadcast
Media Revolution welcomes the ‘Letter to Sir Keir Starmer and Media Heads’ released at yesterday’s National Emergency Briefing in Westminster. The briefing was attended by over 1,200 people including around 150 Parliamentarians, senior civil servants, business leaders, faith voices, cultural and… Read more: National Emergency Briefing Puts Media at the Centre of the Climate Crisis and Demands a National Emergency Broadcast
WE’RE LIVING IN A DISINFORMATION DISASTER
Misinformation, disinformation, sensationalism and scapegoating rule.
Whether it’s disabled people “undeserving” of support, refugees labelled “invaders,” climate activists called “eco-terrorists” or entire communities demonised based on race, religion, or lifestyle, the press frames others as threats or burdens rather than human beings with valid experiences.
Vital perspectives are omitted, marginalised voices are othered or silenced and public debate is skewed. Digital and societal algorithms amplify biased reporting, with platforms (and word on the street) taking cues directly from malignant, mainstream “news” (now just a marketing tool for planetary and societal collapse).
Younger audiences and those who hope to ‘tune out’ may well aim to ignore or avoid it, but those same outputs dominate our social media feeds, and the public and political discourse.
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth.
They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.
Because they control the minds of the masses.”
MALCOLM X
